
Lectures and Talks
Lectures and Talks
Past Events
- Political Theory Colloquium: "Quantifying the Homeland: Metrics, Race, and Bureaucracy in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security" -
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics -
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “The Consequences of Environmental Protest in Global Perspective” -
- Political Theory Colloquium:"Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation" -
- Job Talk: Hanjie Wang, "Do Urban Preferences Shape Climate Policies? Cross-National Variations in Electric Vehicle Import Tariffs, 2012-2022" -
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “In the Chief’s Confidence: Leaders, Advisors and the Making of (in)Accurate Judgments in War” -
- WISIR: Rutger Ceballos Job Talk, "Managing Emancipation: Land, Labor and the Reconstruction of the American State" ( Rutger Ceballos) -
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Ramses Llobet, "Labor Union Solidarity, Risk-dependent Altruism, and Demand for Redistribution in Europe" -
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “The Extent and Impact of Water Injustice in the United States” -
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Bringing Information Back in: Russia and the Pursuit of Limited Aims” -
- CANCELED: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics -
- Political Theory Colloquium: "Death and Fascism: An Existentialist Marxist Analysis" -
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics -
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “How Climate Change Will Reshape Politics” -
- WISIR Talk: Dara Strolovitch, Yale Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Political Science -
- Center for Environmental Politics: Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, “Forest Fires in California’s New Climate Reality: There is Hope” -
- Spring 2023 Faculty Panel, May 1st: “From Globalization to Deglobalization?” -
- WISIR Talk: Abbye Atkinson, UC Berkeley School of Law -
- Center for Environmental Politics: Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Earth and Environment, Boston University, “Rethinking Energy Poverty and Best Practices for the Governance of Distributed Renewable Energy Access” -
- Winter 2023 Faculty Panel, February 27th: The Politics of Artificial Intelligence -
- Center for Environmental Politics: Sikina Jinnah, Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, "Climate Engineering: A proposal for immediate governance” -
- Deep Climate Conversations: Multi-disciplinarity in Climate Social and Behavioral Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities -
- Center for Environmental Politics: Dana R. Fisher, Sociology, University of Maryland, "Service, Strategy, and Sustainability in the Climate Movement” -
- Autumn Faculty Panel: Assessing the 2022 Midterm Election Results With Implications for the Next Two Years and for 2024 (Prof. John Wilkerson) -
- Center for Environmental Politics: Stephanie Pincetl, Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities, UCLA, “The Contentious Question of Urban Water Conservation in Southern California” -
- Prof. Jake Grumbach Talk, "Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part I" -
- The Climate Crisis and the Ethics of Flying (Professor Joseph Nevins, Department of Geography, Vassar College) -
- WISIR Talk (Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, UC Berkeley Sociology) -
- WISIR Talk: "Book Club" discussion of Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives. -
- Ugly Freedoms (Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University) -
- Center for Environmental Politics: Psychological Barriers to Addressing Climate Change and COVD—And How to Overcome Them (Prof. Leaf Van Boven) -
- WISIR Talk: Adom Getachew, Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago (Adom Getchew (Chicago, Political Science)) -
- Center for Environmental Politics: “Ukraine Invasion and the future of Climate Policy” (Gernot Wagner, Columbia Business School) -
- WISIR Talk: Destin Jenkins, Stanford University (Destin Jenkins (Stanford, History)) -
- WISIR Webinar: Race & Democracy (Moderator- Chip Turner) -
- Spring Speaker Event: Masha Gessen (Masha Gessen) -
- WISIR Webinar: Voting Rights Under Attack (Moderator-Jake Grumbach (Political Science UW Seattle)) -
- CEP Talk: A Climate Conversation with Seattle Mayoral Candidates (Lorena Gonzalez and Bruce Harrell) -
- Spring Faculty Panel: Biden Faces the World: American Foreign Policy in a Post-Trump Era -
- POSTPONED:: WISIR Talk: Racial Resentment in the Political Mind (Prof. Darren Davis (Notre Dame)) -
- WISIR Brownbag with Prof. Jack Turner (Jack Turner) -
- WISIR Brownbag with Prof. Becca Thorpe (Zoom link) -
- WISIR Talk: (Mis)Informed: What Americans Know About Social Groups and Why it Matters for Politics (Marisa Abrajano (UCSD)) -
- Winter 2021 PoliSci Faculty Panel: The Biden Agenda: Promises and Prospects -
- 2020-2021 WISIR Series: Panel 3: COVID-19 & Racial Inequities (Prof. Jake Grumbach) -
- Guest Lecture: "Toward Cosmopolitan Political Humility: Insights from B.R Ambedkar and Present-Day Dalit Activists" (Luis Cabrera, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia) -
- 2020-2021 WISIR Series:Panel 2: Race & the 2020 Election (Prof. Christopher Parker) -
- Protests for the Soul of a Nation: COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and Election 2020 (Prof. Megan Ming Francis) -
- Faculty Panel -- Election 2020: A Turning Point? Session 2: Will Your Vote Matter? (Profs. Mark A. Smith & James Long) -
- Lecture on democracy in a time of crisis (Prof. Simone Chambers of the UC, Irvine) -